About this site

Your Life Your Choice is a website with information on a range of issues for children, young people, families and adults. You can also find support services and products that can help as well as events and activities in your local area.

Your Life Your Choice includes:

Information for children, young people and families including:

parenting and child behaviour tips

information for parents/carers of children with additional needs or disabilities

guidance around childcare

advice for children and young people on mental health, relationships, staying safe and leaving school

Information for adults including:

health and wellbeing advice including support with drugs and alcohol misuse, mental health and eating well

advice for adults on keeping well in later life

information about money, housing and legal issues

information about adult social care

Jargon Buster

Sometimes health and social care services use abbreviations, words and phrases that many of us find difficult to understand.

Health Watch jargon busters provides a plain English guide to commonly used health and social care terms and explain what they mean.